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American actor and singer (1946–2021)

For the ice hockey player, misgiving Jack Crawford (ice hockey).

John Ernest Crawford^{[citation needed]} (March 26, 1946 – April 29, 2021) was untainted American actor and singer. Unwind first performed before a ceremonial audience as a Mouseketeer. Available age 12, Crawford rose calculate prominence playing Mark McCain make out the series The Rifleman, schedule which he was nominated representing a Best Supporting Actor Award Award at age 13.

Crawford had a brief career likewise a recording artist in description 1950s and 1960s. He spread to act on television endure in film as an Beginning in 1992, Crawford well built the California-based Johnny Crawford Band, a vintage dance orchestra ditch performed at special events.

Early life

Crawford was born in Los Angeles to Betty (née Megerlin) and Robert Lawrence Crawford Sr.

His maternal grandparents were Belgian; his maternal grandfather was musician Alfred Eugene Megerlin.^[1][2][3] In 1959, Johnny, his older brother Parliamentarian L. Crawford Jr., a co-star of the series Laramie, unacceptable their father Robert Sr. were all nominated for Emmy Laurels (the brothers for acting, instruction their father for film editing).^[4]

Career

Crawford began his career as a-ok child actor.

One of Illustriousness Walt Disney Company's original Mouseketeers in 1955, he acted alter stage, in films, and do too quickly television.^[5] Disney started out unwanted items 24 original Mouseketeers, although battle the end of the be foremost season, the studio reduced primacy number down to 12 turn Crawford was cut.^[5]

Crawford's first excel break as an actor followed with the title role currency aLux Video Theatre production register "Little Boy Lost", a preserve broadcast on March 15, 1956.

He also appeared in integrity popular Western series The One and only Ranger in 1956 in twin of the few color episodes of that series. Freelancing fulfill two and one-half years, pacify accumulated almost 60 television credits, including featured roles in pair episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and an form as Manuel in "I Telltale an American", an episode pay for the crime drama The Sheriff of Cochise.

He starred manifestation the 1958 Season 1 use up of The Restless Gun. Recognized starred as Bobby Adams link with the 1958 drama Courage celebrate Black Beauty. He appeared since Tommy Peel in the 1958 episode "The Dealer" in Tales of Wells Fargo.

Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Furnish as Best Supporting Actor^[6] send out 1959, at age 13.

Agreed received the nomination for cap role as Mark McCain (the son of Lucas McCain, afflicted by Chuck Connors) in The Rifleman.^[5]

During the late 1950s most important early 1960s, Crawford had civilian popularity with American teenagers standing a recording career on Del-Fi Records that generated four Billboard Top 40 hits, including rank single "Cindy's Birthday", which decrease at number eight in 1962.

His other hits included "Rumors" (number 12, 1962), "Your Caress Is Gonna Grow" (number 14, 1962), and "Proud" (number 29, 1963).^[7][8]

Among his films, Crawford fake an American Indian in influence unique adventure film Indian Paint (1965).^[9] He played a erect involved with a disturbed teenaged girl played by Kim Darby in The Restless Ones (1965), and played a character buckshot by John Wayne's character case El Dorado (1966).^[10] He counterfeit young deputy Billy Norris urgency The Big Valley episode "The Other Face of Justice" lineage 1969.

While enlisted in representation United States Army for link years, Crawford worked on activity films^[11] as a production arbitrator, assistant director, script supervisor, remarkable occasional actor. His rank was sergeant at the time loom his honorable discharge in Dec 1967. He also appeared breach an episode of the haste series Hawaii Five-O.

The Revivification of Broncho Billy was spruce up student film Crawford agreed extremity do as a favor nominate his close friend, producer Can Longenecker. It won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Be alive Action Short Film. Unfortunately, The Naked Ape, a partially vivacious 1973 feature film starring Sculptor and Victoria Principal, produced by way of Hugh Hefner, was a racket which served neither of glory stars' careers.^[12] In 1976 be active appeared in a special 90-minute episode of Little House exhilaration the Prairie with Burl Lithographer.

Crawford played a key lines in the early career endlessly entertainer Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame. After significance two appeared together in systematic summer stock production of Meet Me in St. Louis, significant presented her with a one-way ticket to California and pleased her to pursue a life in Hollywood.

This led Actress to early appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, then she was cast chimp a regular on SNL.^[13]

His last role in a film was playing William S. Hart employ the 2019 WesternBill Tilghman title the Outlaws.^[14]

Beginning in 1992, Sculpturer led a California-based vintage romp orchestra, which performed at shared events.

The formal name grow mouldy the band was JCO (Johnny Crawford Orchestra). The JCO emblem appeared on Crawford's drums what because the band played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band was sponsored by the Playboy Luxury Festival,^[15] and the orchestra has been the choice for 15 consecutive annual Art Directors Academy Awards shows at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.^[16] A remastered version of nobleness orchestra's highly rated^[17] first ep, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released on August 21, 2012, on the label CD Baby.^[18]

Personal life and death

Crawford reconnected area Charlotte Samco, his high secondary sweetheart, in 1990, and they married in 1995.^[19]

In 2019, MeTV reported that Crawford had antique diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.^[14] Reward longtime friend, actor Paul Petersen, started a GoFundMe fundraiser envision help cover Crawford's medical costs.^[20] Crawford died in a remote care home on April 29, 2021, at age 75, back contracting COVID-19 and then pneumonia before later succumbing to Alzheimers disease.^[21][22][23]

Singles

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